Do you want to live and work on New Zealand's premier island Nature Reserve?

This opportunity is for a three-year posting on Hauturu/Little Barrier Island, a pest-free island and home to some of New Zealand's most threatened species.

Your main responsibility will be the island weed control programme, including supporting recruitment processes, supervision and reporting. The programme involves a small team of seasonal staff who grid-search parts of the island for climbing asparagus, as well as helicopter and abseil contracts targeting pampas grass on cliffs and slip faces. You will be one of two rangers with a full-time presence on the island

Other responsibilities will include engaging with whanau, hapū and iwi with associations to the island, maintenance of tracks and infrastructure, greeting and briefing visitors, and surveillance and biosecurity to prevent pest incursions and illegal landings. There will also be opportunities to contribute towards work on threatened species.

Te Hauturu-o-Toi is of iconic cultural and spiritual value to Ngāti Manuhiri, Ngati Rehua, Ngati Wai and a number of iwi who also share ancestral ties to it.